1). WHY RESUMES ARE NOT THE MOST EFFECTIVE MARKETING PIECES
If you are marketing yourself, you need a marketing piece. You only have one chance to get an employer’s attention once your marketing piece makes it to someone’s desk. Most people use their resume, accompanied by a cover letter, to
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The call comes just as you’re getting ready to mail your mortgage payment or rent. It’s a job offer from the company at which you interviewed last week. Should you take it?
If you’ve been off work a very long time, your unemployment checks have stopped, your retirement savings statement reads
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There are always people looking for jobs. It doesn’t matter where you live, there is unemployment and jobs being advertised, as well as job seekers looking for jobs. A lot of the time the two groups never meet and this is why unemployment is higher than it has to
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With the tumultuous state of the current job market, even the most qualified candidates are finding it hard to get a response from potential employers. Thankfully, there are a few things that can be done to set a resume apart from the competition and lead to that much coveted face-to-face
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You have put together a winning resume and cover letter. You researched companies, networked and got the interview. Now is the time to make your first physical impression by properly dressing for the job interview.
Students I work with always argue that if you have the qualifications and the skills it
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There are a multitude of tools and resources available to all of us when searching for a new job. One of the least utilized instruments, however, is to identify a career partner among your many social contacts. Look at this person as sort of a coach
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Searching for a new job can take a tremendous toll on your nerves, especially with the current volatility of the job market. Minimizing this stress will help you achieve success in your quest, not to mention keeping your blood pressure down and maintaining a general
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Job searching in San Francisco can be a frustrating and complicated task. It may require multiple cover letters and resumes to be sent out, and each of these may have to be tailored to the industry one is applying to.
In times when layoffs are commonplace, finding a job is not
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Searching for a job has a lot to do with patience because after you’ve done everything that you can to seal the deal, you have to wait. This can be agonizing as the search itself, and in many ways, it can steal your momentum faster that anyone can say, “You’re
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Single parents wear many hats, and being the bread winner becomes a given. When times get hard, unemployment becomes even scarier. Unemployment for two parents usually leaves one parent with a job, but single parents have no fall back from a blow like that.
Many people have started relying upon their
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